شیش

शेष śesha, vulg. śesh, and sesh, ses (fr. śish), adj. & s.m. Remaining; other, all the other; last, final;—remainder, residue, leavings; rest; arrears; surplus; balance;—result, issue, effect; conclusion, end, termination; finish; destruction; death; killing;—name of a celebrated mythological thousand-headed serpent (see sesor sesh, and ses-nāg); name of Bala-rām or Baldev:—śeshāvasthā(˚sha+av˚), s.f. The last state or condition of life, old age:—śesh-bhuk, adj. Eating remnants of food:—śesh-path, s.m. End of a journey:—śesh-jāti, s.f. Assimilation of residue; reduction of fractions of residues or successive fractional remainders:—śesh-rātri, s.f. The last watch of the night:—śesh-śesh-śā`ī, s.m. 'Sleeping on the serpent Śesh,' an epithet of Vishu:—śesh-kārak, s.m. (in Gram.) An oblique case:—śesh-kāl, s.m. The last time; the last term; the time of end or death, the latter end:—śesh-nāg, s.m. The serpent Śesh, the king of the serpent race, and of Pātāl (as the abode of snakes. He is represented as having a thousand heads; and as forming the couch and canopy of Vishu whilst sleeping during the intervals of creation; and sometimes as bearing the entire world on one of his heads. He is also called Ananta 'the endless or infinite'; and as such is regarded as an emblem of eternity).